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Riding the roller coaster that wraps around the New York-New York casino and hotel is 3 1/2 minutes of pure rush, looping up and down fast enough to satisfy die-hard thrill seekers. The coaster is like the southern Nevada recession — full of scary twists and turns — but there are two big differences: The economic thrill ride has lasted longer, and it's doubtful anyone will say it's been fun. If only the economic malaise could be vanquished as easily as the subject of a magician's disappearing act. It can't. Just ask Steve Wyrick, a talented illusionist who has seen his share of thrills, both good and bad. "I've gone through a lot of changes...

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Riding the roller coaster that wraps around the New York-New York casino and hotel is 3 1/2 minutes of pure rush, looping up and down fast enough to satisfy die-hard thrill seekers. The coaster is like the southern Nevada recession — full of scary twists...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It was a most unusual burglary. Thieves got in through the bathroom window and walked past the flat-screen TV, DVD player, expensive camera and a couple of brand-new cellphones. Instead, they took 20 external hard drives and...

When a tree falls in downtown Los Angeles, does anyone notice? Plenty of drivers and pedestrians noticed Monday when a large part of a tree hung precariously over Broadway near the criminal courthouse. But the reaction from City Hall was ...

Medical marijuana activists were puzzling Monday over a federal raid on one of the nation’s most prominent pot legalization advocates, suggesting it may be intended to send a signal that no one was safe as the Obama administration tries to ...

Richard Lee, whose bid to legalize marijuana in California brought him international attention, plans to give up ownership of his Oakland-based marijuana businesses after a federal raid this week seized many of their assets, including plants, bank accounts, re

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Supporters of an initiative that would legalize marijuana in California say they have collected enough signatures to ensure that it will be on the November 2010 ballot. The petition drive, which was run by a professional signature-gathering firm, collected mor

Supporters of legalized marijuana announced today that they have gathered about 700,000 signatures for their initiative, virtually guaranteeing voters will see it on the November ballot. They plan to turn in the petitions today to elections officials in some o

State election officials announced Wednesday that an initiative to legalize marijuana will be on the November ballot, triggering what will likely be an expensive, divisive and much-watched campaign to decide whether California will again lead the nation in sof

The campaign to pass Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, had just $62,000 in cash to spend at the end of June, according to a campaign finance report filed today, an amount far short of what would be needed to ...

Lawyers in state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brownâs office want to postpone their bid to send a man wrongly convicted of murder back to prison on a technicality until after their bossâ upcoming election for governor, attorneys said Thursday. Attorney William ...

Richard Lee rolled his wheelchair up the ramp and glided onstage, steering himself to a table draped in a green cloth with âOaksterdam Universityâ spelled out in gold, varsity-sweater letters. The founder of the nation's first marijuana trade sch

A ballot initiative in California that would permit possession, production and taxation of small amounts of marijuana for personal use would do little to curtail the profits of violent drug-trafficking cartels in Mexico, according to a new study released by no

With Proposition 19 on Californiaâs November ballot, the marijuana debate rages on. Dubbed the âRegulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010,â the measure would authorize possession of one ounce of marijuana for personal consumption by p

Peter B. Lewis, a retired insurance company executive, has donated $209,005 to the campaign to pass Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot. The contributions -- to the main campaign committee as well as an independent.

The campaign to pass Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana in California, will hit television sets in the Los Angeles area Tuesday with a commercial that features retired San Jose Police Chief Joseph D. McNamara endorsing the initiative. The ...

George Soros, the multibillionaire investor who helped bankroll three initiatives to change drug laws in California, endorsed the marijuana legalization initiative Monday and plans to make a major financial contribution to the campaign. Soros, who invested $3